Steno Learnathon at Flatiron School NYC, June 25
The Flatiron School is hosting a Learnathon/Hackathon on June 25, and one of the hacking challenges will be to make a simple, addictive tutorial game for steno beginners. I'll be giving a 45-minute...
View ArticlePlaying Catchup
I haven't been good at keeping up with the amazing things that have been happening in the open steno world! So here's a quick rundown!Excitingly, the For All To Play team has released a new version of...
View ArticleI Now Own an NKRO Laptop!
My old Lenovo Helix is getting alarmingly long in the tooth, so I bought an Alienware 13 for about $1,000 on Amazon two days ago. It arrived last night, and this morning I tried it with Plover for the...
View ArticleOne User's Review of the StenoMod
Check out this great review of my favorite open source steno machine, the StenoMod!
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The Gherkin!
I got a Gherkin! Isn't it adorable? The delightful Kyzak on the Plover Discord built it for me, and I love it. Sadly, the key mapping was messed up, so I'll have to send it back before I can use it,...
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Responses to the 2017 OSP Community Survey!
It took me a while to get to these, but I finally made a digest of selected responses from the 2017 Open Steno Project Community Survey. Here are the complete responses, if you're interested in all the...
View ArticleToss Ted Some Cash For More Red Hot Steno Theory
Ted, our amazing lead dev, has been developing Plover for FREE over the last several years -- not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of hours of unpaid web design, tech support, hardware hacking,...
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The Volksboard
Check out this incredible DIY steno machine with step-by-step instructions on how to build it, by the amazing Carl. It's called the Volksboard, and I love it. Scrabble tiles for steno keys! Ingenious!...
View ArticleCommunity Input on Spending OSP Funds
Last night the Open Steno Project received an extremely generous donation of $500 from a longtime community member who wishes to remain anonymous. This brings our total funds (Donations + Store Sales...
View ArticleNew Live Coding Demo from Ted
Check out this rad live coding demo from our intrepid lead dev Ted! So hypnotizing.
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Want a Hacktoberfest T-shirt? Contribute to an OSP repo!
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source, and anyone who makes four or more pull requests to an open source repo hosted on Github will receive a free T-shirt from Digital Ocean.Some...
View ArticleRemember Outlines in Plover more Easily!
Check out this awesome post on the Plover subreddit about longtime community member BX1959's new Anki deck and mnemonic drilling system for memorizing the Plover outlines for the top 4,300 words in...
View ArticlePloverCAT
It's still early days, but Luke has been working on a plugin for Plover that replicates traditional CAT software by offering a text field where every translation is automatically mapped to a stroke in...
View ArticlePlover + MIDI + Braille
Check out this mindbending video from Sillabix, a user of Michela steno, who recently got our devs to create a version of Plover that works with Michela input from a MIDI piano keyboard. Michela was...
View ArticleConsolidated Page of GitHub Plover Repos
This might not be news to some people, but I was surprised and delighted to learn that Plover appears as a topic on GitHub, allowing various Plover-related repos from many different authors to appear...
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New Plover Weekly released with plugins!
The future of Plover is now released into the wild. With a plugins manager, we open up the ability to download extra features that before would never make it into the official Plover release. Lots of...
View ArticleCall for More Free Multilingual Layouts and Dictionaries
So with the recent feature-loaded weekly release of Plover, we now have support for plugins, including the ability to add new steno keyboard layouts and protocols. This finally allows us to support...
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Ty's Ergodox Tripod Rig
Hey, check out this great post from longtime community member Ty about the tripod rig he made for his new steno-dedicated Ergodox EZ! Amorfati: A New Ergodox.
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Since the Sidewinder X4 was discontinued, I've been referring people to the Zalman for a low cost NKRO solution, but if you prefer a mechanical keyboard to a rubber dome keyboard and don't want to...
View ArticleBelated Bugfix Link
Heyyy, this is way late, but if you didn't catch the bugfix weekly that was released over a week ago, check it out. It fixes both a problem in Gemini PR protocol that I've been struggling with and a...
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